Elishe Ben Avuje : drama in 4 akṭen

fun Jankev Gordin

Goṭ, mensh un ṭayvl : drama in 4 akṭen miṭ a prolog

fun Jankev Gordin

Natan he-ḥakham : ayne dramaṭishe unṭerhandlung iber emuna un religion ; in 5 ersheynungen

ferfasṭ in dayṭshen fin ... Goṭṭhold Efrayim Lessing ; fray iberzeṭtsṭ un bearbayṭeṭ in'm yudishen zshargon fin Yitsḥaḳ Yoʾel Linyetsḳi

Personal characteristics from French history : with portraits

by Ferdinand Rothschild

Die Republikaner : ein historisches Drama in fünf Acten

Boberach: Genf wird als Musterrepublik dargestellt

Manifest an die Geschichtsschreiber Europa's wegen der Militärisch-Gemeuchelten Berliner: Ein in der Geschichte aller Zeiten und aller Völker unerhörtes Blut-Drama ist innerhalb der Mauern Berlins vor sich gegangen ...

Welsch (Projektbearbeiter): Flugblatt, das Abscheu und Empörung über das Vorgehen des Militärs am 18. März 1848 in Berlin ausdrückt

On the Edge of the Primeval Forest. Accounts and reflections of a medical Doctor in French Equatorial Africa

Reading for 4th-year students

Givenness, procedural meaning and connectives: The case of French puisque

I argue that the communication of given information is part of the procedural instructions conveyed by some connectives like the French puisque. I submit in addition that the encoding of givenness has cognitive implications that are visible during online processing. I assess this hypothesis empirically by comparing the way the clauses introduced by two French causal connectives, puisque and parce que, are processed during online reading when the following segment is ‘given’ or ‘new’. I complement these results by an acceptability judgement task using the same sentences. These experiments confirm that introducing a clause conveying given information is a core feature characterizing puisque, as the segment following it is read faster when it contains given rather than new information, and puisque is rated as more acceptable than parce que in such contexts. I discuss the implications of these results for future research on the description of the meaning of connectives.

English and French causal connectives in contrast

Discourse connectives are often said to be language specific, and therefore not easily paired with a translation equivalent in a target language. However, few studies have assessed the magnitude and the causes of these divergences. In this paper, we provide an overview of the similarities and discrepancies between causal connectives in two typologically related languages: English and French. We first discuss two criteria used in the literature to account for these differences: the notion of domains of use and the information status of the cause segment. We then test the validity of these criteria through an empirical contrastive study of causal connectives in English and French, performed on a bidirectional corpus. Our results indicate that French and English connectives have only partially overlapping profiles and that translation equivalents are adequately predicted by these two criteria.

Car, parce que, puisque’ revisited: Three empirical studies on French causal connectives

In French, a causal relation is often conveyed by the connectives car, parce que or puisque. Since the seminal work of the Lambda-l Group (1975), it has generally been assumed that parce que, used to relate semantic content, contrasts with car and puisque, both used to connect either speech act or epistemic content. However, this analysis leaves a number of questions unanswered. In this paper, I present a reanalysis of this trio, using empirical methods such as corpus analysis and constrained elicitation. Results indicate that car and parce que are interchangeable in many contexts, even if they are still prototypically used in their respective domain in writing. As for puisque, its distribution does not overlap with car, despite their similar domains of use. I argue that the specificity of puisque with respect to the other two connectives is to introduce a cause with an echoic meaning.

Der Jude im deutschen Drama : (aus dem Nachlass)

Richard Landau